FDA nominee Heidi Overton backs vaccine safety at Senate hearing
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Dr. Heidi Overton, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, told senators Thursday that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is “safe and effective,” contradicting Trump’s recent suggestion that the shot could be “quite lethal.”
During her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Overton said the MMR vaccine is “our best tool right now in the public health response to the measles outbreak.” Reports from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Yahoo said she also affirmed that vaccines used in the United States are safe and effective.
Overton, a preventive medicine physician and White House domestic policy aide, faced questions from senators about vaccines, abortion and vaping as she sought confirmation to lead the federal agency responsible for regulating drugs and vaccines.
The Hill described the nomination as a test of Sen. Susan Collins’s position as a Maine Republican who supports abortion rights as senators scrutinized Overton’s views on reproductive health policy.
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